Agenda

8:30 am – 8:45 am Welcome and Opening RemarksJim Love, CIO and Chief Content Officer, ITWC
Michael Thompson, Councillor, Ward 37, Chair of the Economic Development Committee and Member of Executive Committee, City of Toronto
Rob Meikle CIO, City of Toronto8:45 am – 9:15 am Tomi Poutanen, Co-CEO & Co-Founder, Layer 6 AI, Co-founder Vector Institute, TorontoThe serial entrepreneur will offer a short address about the state of AI as a business application and why Toronto maintains a leading position.

9:15 am – 10:15 am Artificial Intelligence panelThe panel will highlight business case studies and best practices for companies seeking to employ AI and M2M learning. It will focus on the ways AI is in place now and what’s ahead for the foreseeable future.

1:00 pm - 1:40 pm Changing within: Preparing the workplace for changes in the marketplaceSenior leaders discuss the changes that need to take place inside organizations as they digitally transform. This panel will also look at tech trends and will debunk the myth that technology kills jobs

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm Innovation and Doing Business with the CityCouncillor Michelle Holland will moderate a roundtable discussing the City’s approach to innovation and the varying ways to create partnerships with the city.